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Not Now!
Delaying Your Breastfeeding Toddler By Teri Brown
Avoid situations that keep you out when your toddler is normally napping. It's unfair to expect your child to behave well and be patient when she is tired, hungry and frustrated all things that generally trigger a need to nurse.Despite your best intentions, you may find yourself with a cranky toddler and all eyes on you. Before you panic, take a deep breath, smile and remember that you're in good company.
Crysty Riggs of Seneca, S.C., breastfed her youngest until he was over 3 years old. She believes that all children ask to nurse in public once they become vocal enough to express their needs.
"Just like ba-ba will be among a bottle-fed child's first words, a breastfed child will ask for the same when [she is] hungry," Riggs says. "I don't feel that one is more inappropriate than the other, but that comes down to the comfort level of people who are around when it happens. I feel there is very little that can be done about the sensibilities of another adult."
Keep your sensibilities about you, and you'll do just fine.
